Zophim

In Bible versions:

Zophim: NET NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a field near the top of Mt. Pisgah (ZD)

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place for a watchman

Google Maps: Zophim (31° 46´, 35° 43´)

Hebrew

Strongs #06839: Mypu Tsophiym

Zophim = "watchers"

1) a spot on or near the top of Pisgah, the site of Balaam's oracles

6839 Tsophiym tso-feem'

plural of active participle of 6822; watchers; Tsophim, a
place East of the Jordan:-Zophim.
see HEBREW for 06822

Zophim [NAVE]

ZOPHIM
1. A place on the top of Pisgah, Num. 23:14.
2. A city on Mount Ephraim, 1 Sam. 1:1.

ZOPHIM [SMITH]

(watchers), The field of, a spot on or near the top of Pisgah, from which Balaam had his second view of the encampment of Israel. (Numbers 23:14) The position of the field of Zophim is not defined. Possibly it is the same place which later in the history is mentioned as Mizpah-moab.